Here’s a few snippets of video from when I happened to have my camera rolling at the CD Release show. Now that I get to see how awesome these guys were, I wish I’d filmed the whole show. If you missed the show, have some fun with this, but only a snippet.
CD Release Party
I am pleased as punch to announce that my new album, American Chipfunk will be getting a CD release party thrown in its honor. Â None of my previous works have had a party, so I’m really excited for this. The party is a really big deal for me, so it would mean a lot to me to have everyone’s support as I nervously birth this thing of mine into the world. If you come, you can skip my wedding and funeral and I will still always remember that time you came to my CD release party.
There will be a (not brutally long) show with performances by a hand-picked (by me!) roster of L.A.’s most talented musicians and hilarious comedians. I’ll perform too. I guess that would be appropriate. There is NO cover charge, NO drink minimums and NO drink maximums, so get as drunk as you like. But not too drunk, oh, oh, because you’ll want to remember this lineup of young, good-looking people:
- Max Goldberg
- Shaimus (Rock Band 2)
- Corey Craig (Ice House)
- Nice Peter (Improv)
- Corey Roberts (Thin and Good Looking)
- Ali Packard (Comedy Store, Improv)
- Samuel J. Comroe (Funniest Comic in LA, 2008)
- Rhune Kincaid
This will be your first chance to get the album which includes the only studio recordings of “Coppin’ a Feel,” “Drunk Girls,” and “Welcome to the Spank Bank” performed by a full band. I’m really proud of this album. It also has a couple of surprises that no one has heard before, and the drums and bass guitar are all super-funky. It’s like I found the funk at the bottom of the ocean and milked it.
I hope to see you all at the party! Feel free to RSVP on the Facebook invite:
Calling All Zombies!
If you want to help out and have your voice to be heard on my new album, listen up…
Mixdowns for my new album, American Chipfunk, are nearly complete, but when I listened to it, I felt like it needed a sketch to break the songs up. I remembered an old screenplay I’d written that was mostly dialogue between four survivors of a zombie epidemic. You know I love zombies. If you don’t know how much I love zombies, have a listen to an older song about how much I literally love zombies:
I turned my old screenplay into a radio play. Y’know, like the old-time radio show adventures from the 40′s like The Shadow. The sketch it includes my favorite part of any zombie soundscape, the ever-present Zombie Moan ™.
I’m not gonna lie. It’s a pretty scary sounding horde. But it could be scarier. That’s where you come in. If you are reading this, you are invited to be part of the horde. Just record yourself doing two minutes of your best zombie moan and send it as an attachment to info@rhunekincaid.com. In return, you’ll get a credit on the album and the satisfaction of knowing you were part of the best zombie moan of all-time. Don’t forget to include the name you want credited. Send them in by 11:59 pm on April 18th, 2010, or you’re just another shambling zombie with no direction.
Before you do, let me give a couple of tips on being a good zombie:
- 1. The most important thing you can do as a zombie is lose all inhibition. A laughing zombie is not a scary zombie.
- 2. Make it a *.wav, *.mp3 or *.aif in the highest quality setting you can.
- 3. It takes all kinds of zombies, moaners, gurglers, coughers, hackers, wheezers, bleeders, chokers and garblers to make up a horde, mix it up!
- 4. Don’t move around. Don’t get that into it. That messes up the recording, and it’s weird.
- 5. Decide whether or not you want people to think you’re crazy. I didn’t warn my roommates, I just set up the mic and went. I do that kind of thing a lot though, so they probably just thought my singing sounded worse than usual.
- 6. Try not to sound like Ludo from Labyrinth. We already have that covered.
Don't sound like Ludo, or he'll come beat his royalties out of you.
That just about covers it. Now get busy moaning!
Dream Come True at the Kick-Ass Contest
Last night, I performed in an ass-kicking contest to promote the upcoming Lionsgate movie, Kick-Ass. There were comedians, singers, martial artists, a girl dressed as a dog and many more competing to see who could “kick the most ass.” That’s a fancy way of saying it was a talent show. It’s an on-line contest, so…
To see all the contestants and cast your vote, go to: http://www.meltcomics.com/blog/2010/04/08/shut-up-and-kick-ass-contestant-vids-and-voting/
Vote for me as much as you want, because it would make me happier than I already am. You see, I am already ecstatic about this video. It was a dream come true. I played “Coppin’ a Feel,” which will be the lead single off of my upcoming album, American Chipfunk. The cameraman deserves all the awards in the world, because he thoughtfully panned to the audience during the audience participation part of the song and captured, on video, a real life feel being copped. That is why I’m ecstatic. Most of my concert videos just show me singing. This has the magic of public groping! That’s right. If you watch this video, you will get to see a boob get squeezed. It shows that my song isn’t just a collection of pretty melodies. It is a serious message song like Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young’s “Ohio,” U2′s “Sunday, Bloody, Sunday, John Lennon’s “Imagine,” etc…
Coincidentally, the victim of the squeezing was Satine Phoenix of sexfoodandcomicbooks.com. You can read her review of Kick-Ass here.
Special thanks go out to Jonathan London of Geekscape.net who invited me to the contest (and was the first judge in the video, I think he was a little biased due to his own public molestation habit), Juan-Manuel Rocha of comicsoncomics.com, and CC2K.com for sponsoring the event!
Coincidentally, it really was my sister’s birthday. She shares it with Jackie Chan. I wasn’t making that up. Happy birthday, Emelie!
For the curious, here is the full, 3-minute version of “Coppin’ a Feel”:
http://www.meltcomics.com/blog/
New Album, New Artwork, New Site
Firstly, welcome to the new RhuneKincaid.com. As you can see it is a bit more bloggish. Blogs are so hot right now. This will be the new home for all things MusiComedy… the saloon of choice for the Six-String Stand-Up… Rhune’s “Home Page” so to speak. Up above you can find everything you loved (or hated) about the old site. Videos, performance dates, mp3s, store links, social media links, etc… But now, you’ll also get frequent witticisms, musings, complaining, wankery, nonsense and good ol’ fashioned time-wasting content.
A new album is in the works and it will be called, “American Chipfunk.” You can check out the artwork below. A lot of people might be wondering, “What is an American Chipfunk?” I can answer that. It’s an album so funky, that it is a new species. It’s genus species is acousti-funky. It has stripes around it’s eyes, which is how you can tell it is not a squirrel. It still likes nuts.
